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You mean the oppressive aristocracy? Calling them merely "political opponents" seems a little disingenuous

by feet 4y ago

Retric 4y ago
Anyone in a position to be sent to prison isn’t currently being oppressive. The Terror (1793-1794) really was more about political opponents than addressing past oppression. Approximately 2% of the population was arrested and about 1/8th of them where executed including many aristocrats but also a high percentage being clergy etc. Basically anyone labeled as counter-revolutionary was killed off, a classic culling of political opponents after a revolution.
_-david-_ 4y ago
If they were able to be guillotined they could have been imprisoned.
- yywwbbn 4y ago
  They didn’t have enough space in prisons. Also the Guillotine was reserved for political opponents ordinary people were loaded on to rafts which were sunk in the middle of a river..
kika 4y ago
Do you even Wikipedia? Just going through the list: 1. Notable figure of the French Revolution 2. Duchess 3. Politician, member of the French Convention 4. Officer 5. Aristocrat, lawyer, public official 6. Noblewoman, court official 7. Hairdresser The most oppressive is hairdresser I guess. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:French_people_executed_by_guillotine_during_the_French_Revolution https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:French_people_execute...
- kergonath 4y ago
  > Do you even Wikipedia? Wikipedia is not the Truth. That list is incomplete and selective. Seriously, there are much better sources that paint a much better picture of the grandeur, glory, and absurdity of the French Revolution. I would start with the Revolution podcast, which is itself imperfect but still presents a lot of the nuance missing in this sort of discussions.
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yywwbbn 4y ago
No. The started with the aristocrats (though most of them ran away to Austria before mass murder even started), then they started killing other radicals like the Girondins, mass exterminating peasants and too moderate Jacobins (and random people in general). Finally Robespierre and his ilk got their own heads chopped off. Then you had the Thermidorian reaction where conservative liberals were killing the more radical ones (it wasn’t as extreme as the res terror though). > seems a little disingenuous No.

You mean the oppressive aristocracy? Calling them merely "political opponents" seems a little disingenuous

by feet 4y ago

You mean the oppressive aristocracy? Calling them merely "political opponents" seems a little disingenuous

Anyone in a position to be sent to prison isn’t currently being oppressive. The Terror (1793-1794) really was more about political opponents than addressing past oppression. Approximately 2% of the population was arrested and about 1/8th of them where executed including many aristocrats but also a high percentage being clergy etc. Basically anyone labeled as counter-revolutionary was killed off, a classic culling of political opponents after a revolution.

_-david-_ 4y ago

If they were able to be guillotined they could have been imprisoned.

yywwbbn 4y ago
They didn’t have enough space in prisons. Also the Guillotine was reserved for political opponents ordinary people were loaded on to rafts which were sunk in the middle of a river..

kika 4y ago

Do you even Wikipedia? Just going through the list: 1. Notable figure of the French Revolution 2. Duchess 3. Politician, member of the French Convention 4. Officer 5. Aristocrat, lawyer, public official 6. Noblewoman, court official 7. Hairdresser The most oppressive is hairdresser I guess. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:French_people_executed_by_guillotine_during_the_French_Revolution https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:French_people_execute...

kergonath 4y ago
> Do you even Wikipedia? Wikipedia is not the Truth. That list is incomplete and selective. Seriously, there are much better sources that paint a much better picture of the grandeur, glory, and absurdity of the French Revolution. I would start with the Revolution podcast, which is itself imperfect but still presents a lot of the nuance missing in this sort of discussions.
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yywwbbn 4y ago

No. The started with the aristocrats (though most of them ran away to Austria before mass murder even started), then they started killing other radicals like the Girondins, mass exterminating peasants and too moderate Jacobins (and random people in general). Finally Robespierre and his ilk got their own heads chopped off. Then you had the Thermidorian reaction where conservative liberals were killing the more radical ones (it wasn’t as extreme as the res terror though). > seems a little disingenuous No.